Arts Fest Quotes & Sayings

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list. — Mengistu Haile Mariam

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge. — Richard Dawkins

What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas. — Jennifer Granholm

While there's life, there is hope ! — Hawking, Stephen

If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how! — William Booth

Everything breaks if you hit it hard enough. — Hannah Tinti

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe